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DRAVY A-SAMGRAHA, 15.
COMMENTARY.
We have now arrived at the end of the subdivisions of Dravya. The following table will illustrate the varieties of Dravya with sub-classes.
DRAVYA.
Jiva.
Ajíva.
Dharma. Adharma. Akása. Pudgala. Kala. Innumerable passages might be quoted from all sorts of Jain works which contain a mention and description of these varieties of Dravya. In Tattvå ruhadhigama Sûtra we have :
" " [V. I). "usitarat Afzatragtor: 1" [V. I]. "flaga.[V. 3].
" Ora 1" [V. 39]. i.e., "The Dravyas are Dharma, Adharma, Akâsa and Pudgala which are Ajîvas having Kaya (body. The Jivas also (are Dravyas). Kala too is Dravya." i Jiva and the four Ajîvas Pudgala, Dharma, Adharma, and Akasa have Kaya (body) and are known as Pañchâstikâyas (the Five Astikayas). Kåla, though an Ajiva, has no body. It is Akâya (or without body). This is why Kála is mentioned separately and last of all in the Sûtras quted above.
In all the Jaina Purâņas there is a description of Dravyas. We quote one verse only from a manuscript of Vardhamana Purâņa by Bbattâraka Sakalakîrti.
"अथ पुद्गल एवात्र धर्मोऽधर्मो द्विधा नभः । कालश्च पञ्चधैवेत्यजीवतत्त्व जगौ जिनः॥"
[Canto XVI. Sloka 15.] i.e., "Then Jina (Mahâvîra) spoke about the five sorts of Ajiva, viz., Pudgala, Dharma, Adharma, Akasa and Kala.
As in all the Purâņas so in áll Jain Kavyas also we find enumeration and description of Dravyas. A peculiarity of Jain Karyas is that in the last Canto of nearly all of these works we find a brief summary of the principles of Jainism. It is no wonder therefore
